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ward, which is clothed with a sandstone scrub of plants, ob- 

 served generally in similar sterile situations in the colony. 

 From this eminence, which has been named Bell's View, an 

 extensive landscape of country is presented to the traveller, 

 in a sweep of the compass from about south by the way of west 

 to north. At S.S. W. and S.W., a considerable extent of mo- 

 derately broken country is seen in a series of ranges beyond the 

 old mountain-i'oad toBathurst, uninteresting in the picture on 

 account of its tameness. Upon looking over a tract, broken 

 by sharp well-wooded ravines, and irregular rocky ridges 

 about thirty miles, I observed with pleasure an open undu- 

 lated country from N.W. to N.N.W., whose feature I in- 

 stantly recognised as of the same description of landscape 

 which I had so much contemplated when on the Cugeegong 

 river last year, and during my late tour, — this north-wes- 

 tern tract being situated to the eastward of the Plain of Daby 

 on that stream. The western face of this termination of the 

 range being found too steep and precipitous to attempt its 

 descent, the surveyor's marked trees led us along the slope of 

 a sharp rocky ravine trending to the S.W,, and thence we de- 

 scended with considerable risk to our packhorses, about a 

 quarter of a mile through much harsh scrubby brush. Our 

 marked route westerly conducted us through a brushy and 

 scrubby country, that might be considered nearly level — so 

 exceedingly slight are the ascents and descents — in this stage 

 of our journey the brush commences exceedingly dense, 

 twelve feet and upwards in height, and composed chiefly of 

 Pultenaa linophylla, P. scabra, Daviesia nlicina, and Bur- 

 saria spinosa^ or perhaps a distinct species, formerly 

 gathered on the Hasting's river at Port Macquarie. In seve- 

 ral parts we found the route scarcely pervious to packhorses 

 without the active application of our tomahawks. Having 

 penetrated about four miles west from Bell's View, through 

 a continuation of the brush, grass appearing tolerably plenti- 

 ful, induced me to encamp on the rocky verge of a ravine, 

 where abundance of water was found. 



" 28th. About 6 a.m., we quitted the spot on which we had 



